The story was an incoherent trainwreck and although I twice told the reporter “tens of tons of space rocks enter our atmosphere every day,” she went on camera and said “tens of thousands of tons every day.” Good grief. On Nov 10, 2017, at 5:35 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com<mailto:chuck.hards@gmail.com>> wrote: I was at work, had just stepped outside to get some air, and get out of the dust for a few minute's break. It's my usual habit to look over the skies, weather permitting, when I'm at work in the early morning. I just got lucky with my coffee break timing yesterday. KUTV now has the story on their website, including some remarks from Seth: http://kutv.com/news/local/meteor-spotted-in-utah-skies On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Sue Ellen Ebertz <ebertzs@comcast.net<mailto:ebertzs@comcast.net>> wrote: Cool, Chuck, were you out observing this am? Does anyone know how to read this data, or see if any of these fireball videos are our local one? Thanks, Shoshana https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

Every reporter makes mistakes, some insignificant, some worse. But to say that reporters will "just report what they are told to report," is ludicrous. Reporters do the best they can in a highly competitive environment. Joan mocks the reporter for saying fascinating and educational events involving meteors happen more often than frightening or worrisome events. That is true. Do you seriously doubt it? I've seen fireballs but never a meteor strike. When you consider the context of the statement that tons of tiny bits hit our atmosphere every day (never mind that she misheard the amount), it makes perfect sense. The reporter is saying, Don't worry about fireballs like the one in our story -- these things happen all the time. As a retired reporter, I'm really tired of all the dumping on the press that is going on. It's time people stopped distorting what reporters say. On Friday, November 10, 2017, 12:10:59 PM MST, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote: Well, first you have to give KUTV credit for reporting it.  They are owned by Sinclair Broadcasting and the skill of their employees at reporting anything is marginal. More often they just report what they are told to report - fact checking is a lost art there.  I particularly liked this statement: "The good news is, what is fascinating and educational happens way more than what is scary and worrisome."  Well, if a sizeable meteor actually hit earth it would be far more than scary or worrisome.  Keep looking up folks, you could be fascinated and educated at any moment.  That's the good news. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Jarvis" <SJarvis@slco.org> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 8:43:25 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Fireball 11_9_17 The story was an incoherent trainwreck and although I twice told the reporter “tens of tons of space rocks enter our atmosphere every day,” she went on camera and said “tens of thousands of tons every day.”  Good grief. On Nov 10, 2017, at 5:35 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com<mailto:chuck.hards@gmail.com>> wrote: I was at work, had just stepped outside to get some air, and get out of the dust for a few minute's break.  It's my usual habit to look over the skies, weather permitting, when I'm at work in the early morning.  I just got lucky with my coffee break timing yesterday. KUTV now has the story on their website, including some remarks from Seth: http://kutv.com/news/local/meteor-spotted-in-utah-skies On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Sue Ellen Ebertz <ebertzs@comcast.net<mailto:ebertzs@comcast.net>> wrote: Cool, Chuck, were you out observing this am? Does anyone know how to read this data, or see if any of these fireball videos are our local one? Thanks, Shoshana https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".